The Amazon never gave up its secrets easily. At dawn, the rainforest pulsed with sound: cicadas screaming, parrots cutting the air with shrill…
It stood on the ridge like a scar from another age. The castle of Monte Drago had been abandoned for nearly a millennium,…
It began, as these stories often do, with a photograph. The picture had been tucked away in a cardboard box, misfiled in the…
The house rose from the tall grass like a skeleton, its wooden frame warped by decades of rain and wind, its roof sagging…
It begins with a face.A face that once nearly cost her eyesight. A face strangers laughed at, whispered about, recoiled from. For Victoria…
The last time most of the world saw Abby and Brittany Hensel, they were smiling teenagers on a television screen. Talk shows paraded…
The morning was quiet, deceptively so. Nevada winters were always brutal, the air dry and biting, but that day carried a silence that…
The hospital lights flickered faintly against sterile walls, the air thick with the mingled scents of antiseptic and newborn cries. Somewhere down the…
The rain had just started to fall on McComb that Sunday evening, the kind of summer rain that leaves the air heavy and…
A Moment That Stopped the Game The buzz of the hockey arena was deafening. Thousands of fans shouted, jerseys waved, and chants echoed…